Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

["crrey" <crrey@xxxxxxxx>]

This helps, thanks.  One point, I don't have 7.0 I have 7.1.  the lvm beta
and the the mk_initrd was unknown to me.  i'll print this out and see what I
can do tomorrow night. Probably start with fresh install and then follow
your instructions. I was originally trying to upgrade the 2.4.0 to 2.4.2.
I'll hope for the best and if it fails - Well I'll just get more practice at
installs.  It's all just a learning curve to me.

Thank so much for the info.  Sincerely, Curtis. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: raffo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:raffo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Rafael E. Herrera
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 0054
To: crrey
Cc: Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO; suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [SLE] Support vs Support (Was: [SLE] util-linux and Kernel
2.4.3)


crrey wrote:
>
> In all honesty, being a newbie, I can't really debate the technical merits
> on the install with any authority at all.  However, modules conf,
modprobe,
> and depmod wouldn't work for me after in rpm'ed the 2.4.2 and
> modutils-2.4.2-14 and followed the instructed for install/post-install. I
> only got the new kernel to properly display and work with the modules
after
> a copied the fc.config.old to the rc.config.  After reboot everything
> appeared ok.  Although the video drivers and the new kernel don't get
along
> at all.  Why this worked I couldn't say.

"Rafael E. Herrera" wrote:
>
> To update your suse 7.0 kernel to 2.4 go to
>
>  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/kernel/RPMs/
>
> and download these packages:
>
> k_deflt_24-2.4.2-4.i386.rpm
> lvm-0.9.1_beta4-1.i386.rpm
> modutils-2.4.2-7.i386.rpm
> yast-1.07.3-1.i386.rpm

Before installing them make copies of:

	/etc/modules.conf
	/etc/rc.config

your lilo.conf should have entries similar to this:

image  = /boot/vmlinuz
  label  = linux
  root   = /dev/sda3
  initrd = /boot/initrd

image  = /boot/vmlinuz_24
  label  = linux_24
  root   = /dev/sda3
  initrd = /boot/initrd_24
  optional

The first one is your 2.2 kernel, the second is the 2.4 kernel.
Verify that your /etc/modules.conf and /etc/rc.config are still there (I
don;t know how you lost them the first time.) If they are not there post
any warning or error message you got while installing them, restore the
copies you made in place.

> After installing the new kernel run as root:
>
>         # mk_initrd
>         # lilo
>
> The new kernel label for lilo will be linux_24. This will not be the
> default, so you may have to edit /etc/lilo.conf and change the order of
> the kernel entries and run lilo again.

After you reboot, you select linux_24 to boot your new kernel.

> If you are using NFS, you have to edit /etc/rc.d/nfsserver to read:
>
>       echo -n "Starting kernel based NFS server"
>       if [ "'kernelversion'" == "2.2" ] ;
>       then
>       checkproc -n lockd || \
>                 /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
>       fi
>
> Some more info in:
>         http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/ftpkernel.html
>
> The 2.4.3 kernel sources are located in:
>
>         ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next/
>
> You'll have to recompile. To recycle the 2.4.2-4 kernel configuration on
> Mantel's kernel use 'make cloneconfig' as described in:
>
>         http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/maddin_kernel_config.html
>
> 'cloneconfig' uses the file /proc/config.gz, this contains the
> configuration used to compile the currently running kernel. This feature
> is available on SuSE kernels only, not in the vanilla kernel from
> www.kernel.org .
>
> Mantel's kernel are not supported by suse yet, so you are on your own.
> Post your questions here.
>
> --
>      Rafael

Give it a try again and post your results.
--
     Rafael